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Old 22nd Feb 2010, 01:06
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For some reason, only known to them, the US Navy picked up the MU-2. The MU-2 was based at Edwards AFB. Sure enough about two months it did crash*. Very fortunately all on board escaped with minor injury. Then guess what happened to the MU-2?

They made a target out of it and sure enough it did end up being destroyed by fire.

* The Navy never told us what caused the accident.
The official report from the military AIB is off-limits and the NTSB report was sealed, but I can tell you this Con:

The aircraft was among 3 used by a private company but flown by military pilots. The private operators failed to properly placard a flaky DME which led the PIC upon discovery of his incorrectly reported position on approach at Edwards to make a turn, placing him in the path of a fighter, I believe it was an F-16. The wake turbulence caused them to lose control of the aircraft and crash.

The USN PIC died and an Airman, while several other people were injured, but survived. This accident occurred in the early 1990's.

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